Commercial Tricycle Operator Stabs Passenger To Death In Bayelsa Over A Fare Dispute.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Workers of the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education were thrown into mourning and apprehension following the reported stabbing death of a 28-year old fellow staff member. A commercial tricycle driver, popularly known in local parlance as ‘Keke NAPEP’, stabbed Mr. Twanton Wek to death.

The death of the civil servant was sparked by an argument over a fare within the Gbarantoru area of the Yenagoa Local Government Area in Bayelsa.


The late civil servant, a grandson to the Paramount Ruler of the Gbarantoru Kingdom, Chief Benjamin Weke, was stabbed several times say witnesses, in the neck and the head. It was a violent and brutal event.

Police sources told SaharaReporters on Thursday in Yenagoa that the autopsy report showed deep cuts to Twanton Wek in the chest, which led to his death.

The sources said the deceased was stabbed while returning from a late night party hosted near the Gbarain/Ubie gas station, a gathering place and facility near the Gbratoru community.

Here the story becomes confusing with different elements.

While one version of the incident had it that Twanton Wek had attended a late night party, and afterwards, boarded the tricycle with two girls.

On disembarking the tricycle, Twanton Wek reportedly gave the driver of the tricycle a N1,000 note and demanded change.

The Keke operator was said to have insisted that the sum paid should cover the three persons riding his vehicle, including the deceased.

Attempts by Twanton Wek to defuse the argument led to a struggle with the tricycle driver, and reportedly provoked the stabbing incident.

However, the tricycle driver, now in Police custody, said that Twanton Wek was in the company of two boys, rather than two young women, who assaulted him, tried to beat him up and steal his tricycle.

The Keke operator claimed that the stabbing of Twanton Wek was in self-defense during an attempted robbery.

A security patrol team soon arrived the scene at the time of the scuffle, witnesses told SaharaReporters, and took the tricycle driver into custody. The security team then had the mortality wounded man taken to a local hospital.

A spokesman for the Bayelsa Police Command, Mr. Alex Akhigbe, said that an investigation of the incident was underway to establish the culpability of the suspect’s version of this incident.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       posted by Emanto Ngaloru  April 3, 2014.